{"id":20505,"date":"2011-03-20T23:30:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T05:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/unblogged-bits-sun-20-mar-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T11:19:37","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T17:19:37","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-20-mar-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/unblogged-bits-sun-20-mar-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 20-Mar-11 2330)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries ….<\/p>\n
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  1. Badass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a> – “The United States has only 5% of the worlds population but imprisons 25% of its prisoners. The federal government spent over $15 billion on the drug war in 2010, or a rate of $500 a second. Our country is 66% non-Hispanic white people but 70% of our prisoners are non-white.” THIS is the War on Drugs. Any questions?<\/li>\n
  2. Improve Smartphone Signal with a Drinking Glass<\/a> – don’t be cheap, Steve, start handing them to new costumers<\/li>\n
  3. Possible Early Warning Sign for Market Crashes<\/a> – So … if every company is rising like crazy … that’s a bubble.<\/li>\n
  4. The Magical Bend<\/a> – An intersting idea, though I suspect it would make the utensils a bit harder to hold, and I’d worry about a clasping utensil’s impact on china.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Badass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars] – “The United States has only 5% of the worlds population but imprisons 25% of its prisoners. The federal government spent over $15 billion on the drug war in … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sun. 20-Mar-11 2330)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,65,16,371],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-my-mobile-pda","category-potpourri","category-war-on-drugs"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26548,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/21\/thank-goodness-ronald-reagan-ushered-in-an-era-of-law-and-order.html","url_meta":{"origin":20505,"position":0},"title":"Thank goodness Ronald Reagan ushered in an era of law and order","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-12 3:43am","format":false,"excerpt":"And privatized prisons and \"three strikes and you're out\" and War on Drugs and ... #ddtbReshared post from +Occupy UniversityOccupy the Industrial Prison ComplexThe statistics don't lie. 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